Palestine High School Alumni Association

10 / 28 / 1928  –  09 / 20 / 1988

Services for Mrs. Wayne Elizabeth Weatherly Koehne, 59, of Tyler, formerly of Palestine will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at Bailey & Foster Funeral Home with Rev. Mel Newman officiating.  Burial will be in Roselawn Park.

Mrs. Koehne died Thursday morning in her home after a lengthy illness.  She was born October 28, 1928, daughter of Lawrence Barrett Weatherly and Margaret Lillian Rogers Weatherly.  She was a Lutheran, a 1946 graduate of Palestine High School, and also a graduate of the former Nixon Business College here.  She had worked in the freight claim department of Missouri Pacific Railroad.  She was preceded in death by her parents and by a sister, Jean Weatherly Harding.

Survivors include her husband, August Koehne, Jr., of Tyler; daughter, Rebecca Kennon of Midlothian; son, Martin Wayne Koehne of Tyler; sisters, Mary Jo Graham of Houston, Ann Davis of Palestine; two granddaughters; and nieces and nephews.

Condolence calls will be received from 7 -8 p.m. today at Bailey & Foster Funeral Home.

Nephews will serve as pallbearers.

Those who desire may make memorial contributions to the American Cancer Society.

Source:  Palestine Herald Press